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Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin

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Francois-Joseph Fetis - Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin...

David Wales 3 hours 39 minutes

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John South Shedlock - Pianoforte Sonata

John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at the time to be the earliest keyboard sonata, up the present day. Along the...

Jordan Watts 6 hours 26 minutes

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Lawrence Gilman - Stories of Symphonic Music

'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for scathing reviews of compositions later to become classics. Here he analyzes the...

Lynne T and 13 more 10 hours 16 minutes

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Gladys Davidson - Stories From The Operas

«Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of „Stories from the Operas,“ it has been decided to re-issue the collection in one volume, and to include in this additional stories of new and...

JoeBlu and 16 more 19 hours 2 minutes

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Louis Fitzgerald Benson - Best Church Hymns

This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this recording are said only, not sung, along with a few explanatory notes for each hymn...

David Wales 1 hour 37 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer - Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vol. 1

The first of three volumes of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. Covers the years 1770-1802. — Summary by Zain Solinski

Zain Solinski and 1 more 17 hours 1 minute

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Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, perhaps, the most completely lovable of the great masters. It is hard,...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Richard Strauss

There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters… If “Salome” and “Elektra”, “Ein...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - George Frideric Handel

Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and...

David Wales 1 hour 49 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master

Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked every step of his progress… Haydn was a master by the grace of Heaven and a...

David Wales 2 hours 1 minute

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Pitts Sanborn - Ludwig Van Beethoven

The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies… I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symphonies virtually intact and have only expanded the work a little by incorporating...

David Wales 1 hour 37 minutes

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself confronted with an impossible task. He has, consequently, preferred to outline...

David Wales 2 hours 3 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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